A 1960 portrait photograph of Sidney L. Shuey of Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from the 1960 yearbook, The Spectrum, of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, available […]
PROPOSED COUNTRY CLUB BUILDING A special meeting of members of the Lykens Valley Country Club was held at Hotel Lykens recently. A 50-acre farm situated two miles west of Lykens […]
An undated photograph of the trolley trestle or bridge at Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This trolley line ran from the Lykens Valley Railroad station in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to […]
A brief “official” history of Tower City and Porter Township , Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was produced for the centennial celebration in 1968. Included was a story on the development of […]
Charles M. Coles, editor and publisher of the Lykens Standard, in the September 14, 1917, reprinted an offensive commentary from the Christian Herald which supported negative stereotypes about Filipinos. The […]
In 1934, the Junior Class of Wiconisco High School, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, presented a minstrel program which was performed in black-face. As reported in the Lykens Standard, November 16, […]
The Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election of 1866 pitted a Union General and war hero, John W. Geary, against a avowed racist and white supremacist, Heister Clymer. Geary headed the Republican or […]
A 1924 portrait photograph of Harper B. Dodd of Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from The Obiter, the 1924 yearbook of the Bloomsburg State Normal School, Bloomsburg, Columbia […]